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  Encyclopedia: Divide and rule
In politics and sociology, divide and rule (also known as divide and conquer) is a strategy of gaining and maintaining power by breaking up larger concentrations of power into chunks that individually have less power than the one implementing the strategy.
Divide and conquer (derived from the Latin saying Divide et impera) can mean either: In politics and sociology, a strategy to gain or maintain power: see divide and rule In computer science, an algorithm design paradigm based on recursion: see divide and conquer (computer science).
"Divide and rule" works only if the subjects of this technique are willing to go along with it (eg.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Divide-and-rule   (494 words)

  
 The Junta's Divide and Rule Policy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
So they devise a very careful “Divide and Rule Policy” of separating the fighting force from that of the political one by a sweet word of “Military to Military Agreement” and graciously deleted the pre condition that first the KNU must relinquish their arms and come to the legal fold.
There were numerous instances where the policy of divide and rule have been applied effectively in the ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Greco-Roman, and classical Indian civilizations to bring different ethnic groups and followers of varied ideologies under imperialistic controls.
How we should set ourselves free from the legacy of "divide and rule?" A strong leadership is needed, as it requires a more cohesive and well-integrated society where the policy of "divide and rule" is virtually powerless.
www.mizzima.com /archives/nf/2004/nf-24Jan04-KanbawzaWin09.htm   (1716 words)

  
 Irish Democrat : Features : Divide and Rule
Ireland was where the English invented the tactic of divide and conquer, and where the devastating effectiveness of using foreign settlers to drive a wedge between the colonial rulers and the colonized made it a template for worldwide imperial rule.
It was "divide and conquer" that made it possible for an insignificant island in the north of Europe to rule the world.
Divide and conquer was 19th and early 20th century colonialism's single most successful tactic of domination.
www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /features/divide-and-rule   (1649 words)

  
 BBC News | AFRICA | Ivory Coast: Divide and rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
President Boigny ruled Ivory Coast with a rod of iron from 1960 until his death in 1993.
In a bid to exclude the candidature of Mr Ouattara in presidential elections in 1995 he developed the ideology of "Ivoirite" which divided the country into "pure Ivoirians", the so-called original natives, and "circumstantial Ivoirians" who included immigrants and their descendents.
It had the effect of marginalising an estimated 40% of the population, mainly Muslims from the north, who were considered a threat to Mr Bedie's bid to be returned to power.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/africa/newsid_954000/954863.stm   (602 words)

  
 APCIMS | No more divide and rule
Both groups favour a scenario that allows them to trade on the market of choice and to clear and settle in the system of choice as opposed to the silo model which is the preference of elsewhere in the EU.
The wholesale/retail divide is simply a shorthand term that describes inaccurately the breadth of type of customer.
There is no wholesale/retail divide in aims and goals – provided of course each does ensure it understands the fixes that the other needs and programmes them in rather than leaving them out.
www.apcims.co.uk /public/publications/qreview/june01/ak.asp   (908 words)

  
 phorum - Chinese Culture Forum at Asiawind - Re: Manchu divide and rule is the root cause of China's divisiveness
Its a matter of conjecture as to whether Manchu rule had caused divisions, The four emperors Shunzhi, kangxi,yongzhen and qianlong had aclimatized themselves to Confucian etiquette and ethics and power sharing in government with the Han chinese, and had practiced benovalence and had given more than they had taken from the han chinese
Manchu divide and rule is the root cause of China's divisiveness
Re: Manchu divide and rule is the root cause of China's divisiveness
www.asiawind.com /forums/read.php?f=2&i=655&t=653   (396 words)

  
 To divide and rule
Political parties were quick to term the suggestion a "dangerous" as it aimed at dividing the State on caste lines.
He went on to suggest the creation of "regions" to enhance administrative efficiency in order to enable the benefits of development to reach people faster and "to fulfill the aspirations of the majority of the people who feel that they have not received political power".
They were divided because they were very big States and hence suffered from uneven economic development.
www.flonnet.com /fl1916/19160330.htm   (1114 words)

  
 The Great Divide; Whites Rule OK!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The great divide is between the “haves” (who feel that the arrival of Chavez Frias has lowered their standard of living) and the darker-colored “have-nots” (who are the President’s strongest supporters).
The President’s attempts to include the great majority of the population into the mainstream economy through the creation of micro-enterprises, cooperatives, access to banks and new jobs is praiseworthy, but has met with the inevitable stumbling block of resistance to change, translated into a stoppage that doesn’t give a toss for the “excluded ones”...
It all comes down to simple dollars and cents or their local derivatives … it all boils down to reminding the “liminals” of their proper place in society … resurrecting the dividing fences between “whites” and “fls” … that is the real fear behind media hype about the Bolivarian Circles.
www.vheadline.com /printer_news.asp?id=2843   (274 words)

  
 Divide and rule: Experts disagree - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
If the ramp is divided to facilitate the two-way traffic from Residency Road to Double Road, then a sudden spurt in the rate of accidents on this ramp cannot be ruled out.
Traffic expert Prof M N Sreehari says a minimum of a seven-metre width is necessary on either side of the divider if the ramp is to be cut, now the whole ramp is only 7.5 metre or 24 ft wide.
He says the flyover could be made a two-way but dividing Double Road ramp of the Richmond Circle was the only critical point in the whole experiment.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/dec082004/s6.asp   (677 words)

  
 Guest Editorial: Divide & Rule
Individual countries through economic unions and large free trade pacts strengthen their positions vis-à-vis the world competitors, thereby dividing the world into a handful of large competing regions.
To enforce and strengthen this process even further, countries which are un-cooperative or outright oppose it are threatened with economic boycotts, sanctions, embargoes and even military intervention.
Unwilling to conform to the rules of the New World Order, and being located in the heart of Europe, it simply had to go.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc0402/divide.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Al-Ahram Weekly | Front Page | Gaza: divide and rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Dividing and ruling, Sharon should be able to keep his ship afloat until parliament's long summer recess in August.
This, too, is a form of Sharon's policy of divide and rule.
Israel has already ruled out any curb on its military actions in Gaza, whether before, during or after disengagement.
weekly.ahram.org.eg /2004/696/fr2.htm   (871 words)

  
 PHYS345 Quote of the Day   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
I have looked high and low for attribution to the expression "Divide and conquer" or the original context in which it was issued (probably the military).
Divide a nation into parties, or set your enemies at loggerheads, and you can have your own way.
"Divide et impera" was the motto of Philip of Macedon and of Louis XI of France, in dealing with his nobles.
www.physics.udel.edu /~watson/phys345/quote/11.html   (310 words)

  
 Austro-Hungarian Monarchy -> Domestic Policy: Divide and Rule on Encyclopedia.com 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The strength of the Dual Monarchy lay in its vastness, its virtual economic self-sufficiency, and its opportunities for commercial intercourse from the Swiss border to the Carpathians.
Its weakness was less in its ethnic diversity than in the unequal treatment accorded to its minorities in the spirit of the maxim “Divide and rule.” Of the Slavic elements the Czechs and Serbs were the most disaffected.
Slovenians go for the gold: tourism, trade with the West; Once ruled by the Austro-Hungarian empire, then part of the Communist Yugoslavian federation, Slovenia has been independent only since 1991.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/austrohu_domesticpolicydivideandrule.asp   (557 words)

  
 "Divide and Rule" And the Antidote
There were numerous instances where the policy of divide and rule has been applied effectively in the ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, Greco-Roman, and classical Indian civilizations to bring different ethnic groups and followers of varied ideologies under imperialistic controls.
The policy of "divide and rule" assumed paramount importance in the establishment of de facto control of the European power in these far flung colonies.
By dividing the local populations along different lines and playing one against another, the colonial powers preyed on their vulnerabilities, thereby weakening the national morale and tightening their imperialistic grip.
www.alochona.org /magazine/2002/april/politics.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Imperialist Divide and Rule
As is often the case, a defeat rather than a victory took on epic significance and was the rallying point for a sense of Serb nationhood which survived centuries of rule by the Ottoman Empire.
Like oppressors throughout human history who ruled over a number of different subject peoples, the Ottomans played a game of divide and rule with ethnic groups.
In the age of modern imperialism as described by Lenin in "Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism," divide and rule is evident just as much as in the time of the mediaeval Ottomans.
www.northstarcompass.org /nsc9903/devrimi.htm   (1187 words)

  
 Divide & Conquer, Unite & Rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
     Today’s culture is dichotomously divided into two combative mobs, and ruled by a common belief in mob-imposed state religiosity.
  Today’s political culture is divided into pseudo-scientific liberals on the “left”, and superstitious (supernaturalistic) conservatives on the “right.”  The liberals generally hold tax parasitic power in the more urbanized (populous) core.
     In the inner city/county seat metroplex, where dividing fractious groups against each other is useful for libertarian reform, divisions amongst the ruling elite, if exploited by contractual democratization, can produce opening of the system to real debate, diversity of ideas, freedom of expression.
www.silcom.com /~taxabo/Divide.htm   (609 words)

  
 'Divide and rule' strategy splits Sapang Palay farmers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
And, he added, if the farmers are divided, it won't be difficult for the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to rule against them.
To the farmers' relief, then Agrarian Reform Secretary Ernesto Garilao denied Moldex's application for conversion, ruling that the hacienda was agricultural land, contrary to the municipal council's decision reclassifying it.
He cited a December 1999 order from the DAR Adjudication Board which he said ruled that, "as far as tenancy is concerned, Moldex is a complete stranger in the case." The case was filed by Sapang Palay farmers against Moldex to seek recognition as tenants of the land sold by the hacienda owners.
www.cyberdyaryo.com /features/f2000_0607_01.htm   (1300 words)

  
 Dividing Simple Fractions
Rule 14: To divide one fraction by a second fraction, convert the problem to multiplication and multiply the two fractions.
Rule 15: To divide a fraction by a whole number, convert the division process to a multiplication process, and complete the following steps.
Rule 16: To divide three or more fractions, complete the following three steps.
www.sosmath.com /algebra/fraction/frac3/frac35/frac35.html   (152 words)

  
 The Bangsamoro Online - wfsection-Spanish Divide and Rule Tactics
What is the contribution of Spanish divide and rule tactics to the present negative relations between Muslims and Christians in Mindanao?
To give divide and rule divine sanction, religious doctrine was put to good use.
The divide and rule tactics of the Spaniards left a deep mark in the moral fiber of Moro-Christian Filipino relations.
www.bangsamoro.info /modules/wfsection/article.php?articleid=34   (874 words)

  
 Divide And Rule ... For Now
A president that has divided the country like none other, despite the unity we shared after 9/11.
A president that has committed crimes against the environment, catered to his cronies at the expense of poor and middle class Americans, and turned virtually the entire world against our nation.
The United States is a bitterly divided nation, at war with itself.
rense.com /general59/rule.htm   (670 words)

  
 Shamir on Jewish strategy : Divide and Rule - Stormfront White Nationalist Community   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This drive of “divide and conquer” was the motive of the long “special relationship” between the Blacks and the Jews.
Much of inter-communal hostility was imported from New York for ‘Divide and Rule’ purposes.[12] The most extreme groups, from KKK to Black Panthers, had connections in the same circles.
Memory of Confederacy does not have to divide; it could be uniting glue, as there were many fls and Native Americans in the defeated army as well.
www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=41427   (2573 words)

  
 EXPONENTIAL RULES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rule 1: To multiply identical bases, add the exponents.
Rule 2: To divide identical bases, subtract the exponents.
Rule 3: When there are two or more exponents and only one base, multiply the exponents.
www.sosmath.com /algebra/logs/log3/log3.html   (76 words)

  
 Divide and Rule
Such is the nature of the debate around Israel, dominated more by myth than reason and the legacy of imperialism that has taken the tactic of divide and rule to stratospheric heights.
But then, this is the whole point of divide and rule isn’t it.
It was also the period of Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, and the domestic challenge and defeat of the rule of Nixon/Kissinger, ultra-right-wing ‘cabal’ of the early 1970s.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4384.htm   (2035 words)

  
 Washington is accused of ‘divide and rule’ in Caribbean   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Washington is accused of ‘divide and rule’ in Caribbean
PORT OF SPAIN (IPS/GIN) - President George W. Bush’s recent invitation to meet some Caribbean leaders for a working breakfast is being viewed as another of Washington’s attempts to divide and rule the region, as the administration seeks more bilateral agreements to counter opposition to its global policies.
He recalled that the region had appeared divided on issues of offshore banking raised by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) when it was felt that Barbados had broken ranks, even though Bridgetown later denied the allegation.
www.finalcall.com /artman/publish/article_1043.shtml   (821 words)

  
 Machiavelli And The Democrats: Divide And Rule
He cited the ancient political maxim, divide et impera, “divide and rule.” In their struggle for the power to rule America, Democrats superbly adhere to Machiavelli´s principle as they divide Americans one against the other.
The Democrats have also succeeded in dividing Americans along economic lines, pitting poor and middle class Americans against “the rich,” which includes a lot of ordinary people who make their money the old-fashioned American way: they earn it--and help the economy and create a passel of jobs in the process.
In their exploitation of the divisions between rich and poor, Democrats have also divided “working Americans” against businessmen and “greedy corporate fat cats.” Democrats team up with union leaders in their battles against American businesses, then collect hefty political payoffs from union leaders and capture the union vote.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/698378/posts   (1728 words)

  
 SSRN-Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule: A Model of Personal Rule by Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson, Thierry Verdier
Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of "kleptocrats", who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption.
We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part, on their ability to use a "divide-and-rule" strategy, made possible by weakness of the institutions in these societies.
Kleptocratic policies are more likely when foreign aid and rents from natural resources provide rulers with substantial resources to buy off opponents; when opposition groups are shortsighted; when the average productivity in the economy is low; and when there is greater inequality between producer groups (because more productive groups are more difficult to buy off).
papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=471821   (460 words)

  
 Mercury - 'Divide and rule' move slammed
Pretoria: A coalition of traditional leaders has accused provincial and local government Minister Sydney Mufamadi of "divide and rule" tactics by failing to consult them on the establishment of a task team to draft laws to regulate them.
Inkosi Mwelo Nonkonyana, speaking after a meeting of the coalition yesterday, which includes the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa, the six provincial houses and the national house of traditional leaders, and the Royal Bafokeng, said Mufamadi had appointed some of their members to the task team but had not consulted the coalition.
"No traditional leader who is serving in the task team has any mandate from us and we see this as a 'divide and rule' tactic employed by the minister to divide the coalition," Nonkonyana said.
www.themercury.co.za /index.php?fArticleId=43746   (548 words)

  
 Spontaneous Order: Union Budget 2005: Savvy Strategy of Divide and Rule   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
They feel that a large number of important issues have been left unanswered and those that are addressed hardly go beyond the conventional wisdom.
He rightly flagged those policy issues and said that they will be presented later on.
It is a savvy strategy of divide and rule—divide the controversial issues instead taking them all up in one go and thereby divide the opposition.
blog.ccsindia.org /mt/archives/2005/02/union_budget_20.html   (294 words)

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